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Creative and Design Manager Job Placements – Movit Products Limited
Job Title: Creative and Design Manager
Organization: Movit Products Limited
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Head of Brand
Management
About US:
Movit
Products Ltd is a Ugandan personal care company based in Kampala, manufacturing
personal care products. Its brands include Movit, Radiant, Baby Junior, Skin
Guard, Pine and NAN. The company was founded in 1997, by Simpson Birungi as a
makeshift workshop in Namasuba, Wakiso District. In 1999 the first Movit
product, Herbal Baby Jelly, was put on the market. Over the years, Movit, the
company’s flagship name, has grown into one of Uganda’s top cosmetics brands
with distribution links in both East Africa and the COMESA regions. Other known
products from Movit include the Body Milk Lotion, Junior Petroleum Jelly, Movit
No base Relaxer and many more
Job Summary: The purpose of this is job to provide creative
support to Movit in communication, design, planning and innovation on products
to ensure consistency in look and feel.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
· Develop design /
communication plans for the team that are in line with the Movit’s objectives
and strategies;
· Oversee the creative
process to ensure seamless flow of processes and that the ultimate goal is met;
· Coordinate print
production of materials i.e. new labels, flyers, banner, boxes etc.as per the requirements;
· Implement creative
concepts or projects in Movit so as to ensure Movit products are attractive and
eye catching;
· Research on new trends
on communications and designs to keep abreast and coach and mentor the team on
this basis;
· Weekly and monthly
Report writing on the achievements of the team and the way forward;
· Manage all designing
works on packaging, advertising and any other promotional materials;
· Supervise, inspire
and kick off creative sessions for all
company design projects;
· Develop creative
programs and design concepts that meet MPL’s objectives and brand strategy
· Prepare approved
finished Art work for external processing;
· Liaison between the
brands and the communication agency so as to relay the design specification and
requirements; and
· Field supervision of all
external company brand activities such as tradeshows/activations
· Ensure 100% success rate
on both deadline delivery and quality on all art works process
· Daily distribution of
work priorities for the team
· Ensure 100% compliance to
the set procedure/protocol for innovative designing and the approval process
· Ensure 100% relevancy
and creativity on all assigned branding projects
· Pitch designs on all
assigned design projects for management’s input and approval
· Ensure 100% success rate
on the processing of all approved artwork in terms of quality, specification
details and delivery deadline.
· Ensure 100% compliance
as per the approved external art layout
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
· The ideal applicant must
hold A Master’s Degree in a relevant field
· Minimum months or years
of relevant experience required to be appointed to the position :
· Minimum of six (6)
years’ relevant work experience for direct entry; or Three (3) years’
experience in the previous grade.
· Analytical decisions
· Operational decisions
· Creative designer
· Computer literacy
· Keen to details
· Trendy
· Eloquence in speech
· Confident and bold
· Maturity
· Aggressive
How to Apply:
To apply, please send your CV and cover letter
with 3 work related referees to the address or e-mail below.
Emails
that exceed 2MB will not be considered.
Email:
application@ppg.co.ug
While
we thank all applicants for your interest, only those that qualify will be
contacted. Any form of lobbying will lead to automatic disqualification.
Deadline: 13th
February 2020
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